Too Hot to Carve? Think SNOW!!!

[Goody]

It was 103 degrees at the shop today. Too hot to run the duplicator or saw so I grabbed a carving block sat down in front of a fan and thought about snow. Well if you think about snow while carving on a block what do you get?







A Snow Man!!!
Keepin Cool,
Goody

[Chahlie]

Hi All,
Hey there decoycarver...When I think snow I think it looks just fine way up on Mt. Hood, thank you very much...and it(the snow)can stay up in the mountains.

Well It didn't get anywhere near 103 here in Portland, OR today but it was way to warm to do anything that would raise a sweat. I just sat out on the back patio in the shade and worked on a Santa for a friend...maybe it was my imagination, but while I was actively working on the Santa it seems like there was a nice cooling breeze across the patio...whenever I lost focus and wasn't concentrating the breeze seemed to stop. Go figure!?

Oh well, it will soon be fall here in the great Northwest and cool rainy days will lend themselves to carving without sweating!!

Chahlie

[Ashbys]

Gooody ,

I like the snow man!. Sorry things didn't work out yesterday, I had a couple of idiot problems. I got up at 6:45 and went to take care of my horses. Got to the barn no horses! Ok so I go out across the pasture to find the horses..... NO horses !!!.
So back to the barn , get into the truck, And go looking ....NO horses! So I decide to check my buddys pasture ... nope no horses, but out of the darkeness of his barn ... I hear Beau. He saw me walking past and decided to say hello ., seems they had got out about 1 0'clock and went to vist their buddies ... poker night I guess. And My friend had put them in stalls . So back to the bard , walk back to my friends and get the truck, walk the fence , no breaks.
So I think well , they will be out again, if the fence is down and I can't see it . So I start carving a black walnut tree... 40 mins later , someone is checking it out over my shoulder .... Beau!!
Back to the barn.. walk the fence again still can't find it ... I go back to the tree , 40 mins later , Beau!
Back to the barn temp is now 104, and I am no longer being polite . Walk the fence and I notice , one of the neighbors pickets fence sections are down. YEp fell right across their fence so I go fix the fence and go back to the tree.
40 mins later ...yep that right BEAU!! This time The same picket is down, I put it back up and this time I sit and watch , 20 mins after Beau thinks I am gone he go down to the picket , hooks his head over it and pulls it down!
Go into the guys back yard with him there and starts eating his pear and apples!
I go to get him and my neighbor is sitting there laughing. He tells me to let him be I said , I have to fix the fence and he laughs. Tells me how much he loves these two idiots and would I mind if he feed them some apples and pears. Of course not , I get a call at 9:30 last night , it's my neighbor , Beau got out agin , but he fixed the fence so there would be no more problems. Ok. I think and I will run new fence in the morning.
Got to the barn this morning , no Beau no midnight ! I look agross into my neighbors yard and there they are. When I got to them the picket was thrown across my wire and he had fenced in his yard to give them free access to the appples and pears!
Happy horses... nows where my gun !

Ash

[AlArchie]

NOW, I know why I don't have a horse! Other than we live in town! Right across the road by our back lot is twp, and they have horses that we enjoy watching, but we NEVER have to track 'em down.

Sorry, Goody, I ain't a goin' ta think snow till it's absolutely necessary. Soon as it starts, around here, it don't quit till we get over 300 inches. And with Lake Superior warming up like it has this summer, we can expect a bumper crop when the wind howles down out of Canada!

Like your snowman, though, NEAT!



Al

[Irish]

Goody,

The snowman is great and I don't know how you managed to think snow yesterday! As you know we are just a few miles down the road from you so we, too, had the unbearable heat. I was trying to wood burn a scene and what a snicker. The hotter it got the more the air conditioner ran and the lower the power to my wood burner. The area that I did get done turned out to be a real Brown Out area ... had to redo a lot of it this morning around 4 am before the day's heat begins again.

Susan

[Colin-Partridge]

Harold love the snowman it may be too hot to carve but I was out yesterday looking for more sticks (Dont worry I aready slayed that dragon) I noticed that the sumac on the edge of the woods. The leafs are starting to turn and then on the way home a lot of the maples are turning. Yes it wont be long before fall is here in Canada and once that happens the snow isnt too far behind. But that is what Canada is all about 8 months of winter and 4 months of bad snowboarding.
Colin

[wade clark]

4 months of bad snowboarding! Ha! Things are tough, having to suffer through 4 months of bad snowboarding, before things get back to their normal state of white, yellow and black snow! I'm originally from Eastern Oregon, high country, hard long winters. Snow always got black, at least along the roads, before it went away in the ...Summer (not Spring)!
Snow was a lot of fun for me, but I was young and dumb and that helped a lot! Now that I'm older and ...wiser or dumber, depending on who you ask, cold hurts! I can barely handle the air conditioning here in Florida!
Wade

[Kenny_S]

Cool Snowman Harold!

[don]

Thinking Snow? Monday morning I walked home from work and the poor folk getting ready to drive to work had to scrape the frost of their windshields.(I'm about 500 miles north of Edmonton ,Alberta and our season of poor sledding is just about over. ;-)
I like the snowman,the heat must be making him lean over

[Callynne]

Nice snowman, Goody!! I'm carving on Halloween pieces right now, snowmen aren't too far away for me, yours is a good inspiration!

We are getting a little break from the heat and humidity here in Pennsylvania, actually have had the air off the last couple days. So nice to have fresh air in the house!

Don, are you serious? Frost already?? I love fall and winter, I think mainly because I used to can all our vegetables and fruit, I was so terribly busy in summer and fall and it didn't stop until it frosted hard enough to kill off the garden. Late fall and winter were 'my time' to sew, knit, do needlepoint, etc. Now, all I do is carve! Happiness, happiness!!

Ash, I loved your story!! We had a pony, once....for a very short time, when the kids were little. For some reason, it was content to stay home when we stayed home, when we left it would always get out somehow and follow us. First time it happened a neighbor saw him and called my in-laws. We got that we'd look in the rear view mirrow when leaving to make sure we weren't being followed....and we usually were! Like I said, we didn't have him long, he went to live with a nice Amish family! Callynne